Journal
MOLECULES
Volume 25, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules25225220
Keywords
microalgae; cyanobacteria; biofuel; biological contamination; controlling strategy
Funding
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Normal University [18XLRX024]
- CAS Key Laboratory of Bio-based Materials, Chinese Academy of Sciences [BMF-2020-08]
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Microalgae and cyanobacteria have shown significant potential for the development of the next biofuels innovation because of their own characteristics as photosynthetic microorganisms. However, it is confronted with a lot of severe challenges on the economic scaling-up of the microalgae- and cyanobacteria-based biofuels production. One of these major challenges is the lack of a reliable preventing and controlling culture system of biological contamination, which can attack the cell growth or product accumulation causing crashing effects. To increase the commercial viability of microalgae- and cyanobacteria-based biofuels production, overcoming the biological contaminations should be at the top of the priority list. Here, we highlight the importance of two categories of biological contaminations and their controlling strategies in the mass cultivations of microalgae and cyanobacteria, and outline the directions that should be exploited in the future.
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